single-celled

1. Made up of only one cell. Bacteria are single-celled organisms.

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And that really means everything, from trees and birds to single-celled organisms and viruses.

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This explains why organisms -- from single-celled microbes to complex plants -- experience diminishing growth returns even when conditions seem ideal, as each new stage reveals a fresh constraint.

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Among them, protists -- tiny, single-celled organisms -- are especially remarkable for their evolutionary significance.

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The research draws inspiration from single-celled slime molds that self-organize when starving.

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These single-celled algae, which contain chlorophyll, float in the sunlit layers of the sea and are coated with calcium carbonate plates known as coccoliths.

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